My dear, we live in an age of transition.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.